All This and Heaven Too

Album: Ceremonials (2011)
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  • And the heart is hard to translate
    It has a language of it's own
    It talks in tongues and quiet sighs
    In prayers and proclamations, in the grand deeds
    Of great men and the smallest of gestures
    In short shallow gasps

    But with all my education
    I can't seem to command it
    And the words are all escaping
    And coming back all damaged
    And I would put them back in poetry
    If I only knew how, I can't seem to understand it

    And I would give all this and heaven too
    I would give it all if only for a moment
    That I could just understand
    The meaning of the word you see
    'Cause I've been scrawling it forever
    But it never makes sense to me at all

    And it talks to me in tiptoes
    And sings to me inside
    It cries out in the darkest night
    And breaks in the morning light

    But with all my education
    I can't seem to command it
    And the words are all escaping
    And coming back all damaged
    And I would put them back in poetry
    If I only knew how I can't seem to understand it

    And I would give all this and heaven too
    I would give it all if only for a moment
    That I could just understand
    The meaning of the word you see
    'Cause I've been scrawling it forever
    But it never makes sense to me at all

    And I would give all this and heaven too
    I would give it all if only for a moment
    That I could just understand
    The meaning of the word you see
    'Cause I've been scrawling it forever
    But it never makes sense to me at all

    No words, poor language
    It doesn't deserve such treatment
    And all my stumbling phrases
    Never amounted to anything worth this feeling
    All this heaven never could describe
    Such a feeling as I'm hearing
    Words were never so useful
    So I was screaming out a language
    That I never knew existed before Writer/s: Florence Leontine Mary Welch, Isabella Janet Florentina Summers
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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